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• The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.

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  Religious, Prayer, Real

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• May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

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  Love, Anniversary, Long

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.87, Penguin

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• You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

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  Running, Arms

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• A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

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  Democracy, Wonderful, Responsible

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

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  Fighting, Police, Stronger

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

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  Fake, Psychology, Matter

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.112, Penguin

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• The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

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  Battle, Price Of Freedom, Willingness

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• Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

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  Running, Long, Cost

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• There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

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  Badass, Preparation, Luck

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

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  Life, Education, Children

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• What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

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  Self, Safety, Democracy

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• Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

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  Political, Politics, Strategy

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• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

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  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

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  Stars, Truth, Thinking

  Time Enough for Love (p. 264)

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• Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

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  Believe, Religion, Worship

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

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  Hurt, Lying, Religion

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Time Enough for Love "Prelude II" (1973)

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• Never try to outstubborn a cat.

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  Cat, Trying

  Time Enough for Love "Second Intermission" (1973)

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• The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

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  Use, Share, Figures

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• Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

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  Dirty, Men, Special

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

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  Wisdom, Philosophy, Yield

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

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• The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

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  Ideas, Niche, Hardest

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• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

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  Relationship, Thank You, Giving

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• When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

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  Atheist, Government, Church

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.318, Macmillan

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• One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

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  Clever, Men, Laughing

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin

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